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Bill Watterson lives in my hometown. I saw him take the garbage out once. I shall never forget that day.
by dr_dshiv 6y ago
Bill Watterson lives in my hometown. I saw him take the garbage out once. I shall never forget that day.
- abledon 6y agoI'd love to hear what he has to say about modern life, esp about social media
- treesrule 6y agoI think he specifically does not want you to know what he thinks about these things.
- chmod600 6y agoIs it really a secret? Calvin and Hobbes contains a ton of relevant commentary. Just the amount of time Calvin spends outside tells you something. He probably would leave it as observation rather than presciption, like most humorists.
- throwawayboise 6y agoKids spending a lot of time outside was quite normal in the 1980s. There wasn't much to do inside. Even more so when Watterson was himself a child, which is probably what inspired a lot of his cartoons.
- sp332 6y agoIt's not secret, more like private. He quit because he didn't like being a celebrity and having people pry at his personal life.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoI think it also has to do with not wanting to accidentally ruin the legacy, like some of the successful tv series do with their last season.
- abledon 6y agoi know, thats why i want to know so bad !
- redshirtrob 6y agoHere's my favorite little bit of Bill Watterson trivia. He's from the Cleveland area. He attended Kenyon College in Ohio. As he arrived, another famous cartoonist Jim Borgman, who is from the Cincinnati area, was just graduating. Borgman went on to work at the Cincinnati Enquirer and won a Pulitzer in '91. Watterson was inspired by Borgmam's political cartoons and worked at the Cincinnati Post for a while. The Post fired Watterson and eventually we got "Calvin and Hobbes." So, two giants of cartooning in the 80's and 90's just missed each other at a small liberal arts school in the middle of Ohio, briefly worked at competing papers in the same city, then went on to reach the pinnacle of their craft, albeit quite differently. I'm amazed by these little quirks of life.